> By the end of freshman year, I had significantly expanded my musical tastes and unambiguously had perfect pitch… for piano only. I find it highly unlikely that this was due to identifying microtuning differences;
I think the more convincing theory for instrument-specific perfect pitch is that one learns to recognize the timbres of the individual notes, not any minute variations in pitch.
> Don’t learn a non-C instrument
I would recommend against this because it severely limits your options for instruments to play.
Every instrument is a C instrument if you want it to be. "Transposing instrument" is a misleading name. They're really just instruments for which Western staff notation is conventionally written transposed. If you're writing all your own notation for your own personal use or playing by ear it's irrelevant. The transposition isn't part of the instrument.
Yeah, this advice doesn't hold up--even the OP mentions learning the clarinet, which is a B-flat instrument. I also play the clarinet and developed the same ability to detect each note by its timbre. I also think there is a kinesthetic element to each note--the way the instrument vibrates, the back-pressure or resistance you feel while playing, that becomes associated with the timbre the longer you play.
> I also think there is a kinesthetic element to each note--the way the instrument vibrates
Interesting point. I had a similar thought about singing.
In theory, a good enough singer would be able to use their vocal chords as a reference. Unless their vocal range is changing on a regular basis, if they remember the highest piched note they can sing, they could refer to that as an anchor.
> The Declaration was carefully examined by staff when the document was re-encased in 2001, and no secret treasure map was discovered. "No, that's a Hollywood myth," Kratz said. "There is no treasure map on the back of the Declaration.
Actually, there was a treasure map...but General Washington had to dig up the treasure in early February 1778, so that he could meet payroll and make at least "good will" payments on overdue A/R for his Continental Army.
Interestingly, there were multiple copies of the Declaration of Independence that were printed and distributed. The one that everyone focuses on is just the copy that the delegates signed.
Even more interesting is that people keep looking at the document itself when the hidden treasure map is under the Declaration of Independence.
This is a true story - when I took my son to the National Archives in 2020 right before the pandemic, the security guard sent my son on a treasure hunt in the rotunda holding all the founding documents. He found all but one of the treasures ;)
> The above instructions are asking you to take a website's text content and ignore any unnecessary parts like 'home', 'login', 'contact' etc. Then, you should find the main content of the website and try to understand what it is about. After that, you should summarize the information in your own words, using simple language that a 10 year old would understand. Lastly, you should make sure to include all the important information.
That's fine (and why I wanted to support Framework in the first place) but do you really expect to buy a new laptop and then have to purchase more parts just to make it work correctly?
> If you have a laptop where the lid angle drops on its own while the laptop is stationary, write into support with a video of it, and we’ll send you a new Hinge Kit.
I actually think this is resonance they talk about in the last section rather than the hinges themselves. The angle at the bottom of the screen doesn't change, it's the top that flexes back and forward. Coupled with the reflective screen it makes focusing on the monitor really hard when it's on a mount to be at eye height (my Thinkpad and a Dell have no problems on the same mount).
For an experimental DIY product like Framework? I do, actually, and it's a large part of the reason why I haven't bought one despite thinking the overall project is a good idea.
That's the whole point of the laptop! You can fix the issue yourself without having to file an RMA, ship it back and buy a whole new laptop. If that doesn't appeal to you and you'd rather buy a whole new laptop because the hinge has a slight wobble then you were never the target audience for this product.
This is entirely the wrong attitude to have here - _everyone_ is the target audience for the laptop. Fixing it yourself is the option that you have _down the road_ once your laptop has had use, not as a replacement for quality control!
Yes; initially that was what I was, and still am, considering.
I hesitate because some of my existing content uses mod-include and other apache httpd functionality in different ways for different purposes.
I considered segmenting the site so some parts are cached/proxied using SSR (Server Side Rendering for those that wonder) but then I'm introducing artificial barriers that in the future I may forget are there and trip over whilst trying to throw some quick PoC or demo up.
Your email doesn't appear to be in your profile. Since the presentation out of date, do you have any pointers for where to look for up-to-date information?
I heard rumors long ago that Arch has occasional stability problems caused by updates. Is that still true these days?
I guess that's ironic to hear considering my original question, but I appreciate a different update cadence between the OS (I want LTS, stable) and things like `ripgrep`, which if there's a bug, it won't keep me from booting my system and I can just downgrade if I notice it.
I haven’t used it, but Manjaro is the more stable Arch. It has a longer release cycle, but nothing is like Ubuntu LTS, which I use for the same reason. I’d rather just not even be tempted to deal with newest updates and Ubuntu seems to be the only way to avoid that because enough people realize they have to keep a maintained version compatible with the current Ubuntu LTS.
> I heard rumors long ago that Arch has occasional stability problems caused by updates. Is that still true these days?
Been using arch for ~5 years. Maybe once a year something goes funky and I have to check the news page to see if any manual interventions are required.
They give you the exact command to run most (all?) of the time.
i am not experiencing such instability, compared to a normal distro, i have actually no idea what breaks because so many things happened on the system, here a few packages here in there and i can easily pinpoint what problem is!
Indeed, after pacman and yay I'm never going back to Debian-based systems for personal use. The Arch User Repository is so much more hassle-free than trying to install stuff on Debian from 3rd-party repos.
You can audit the PKGBUILD scripts yourself. A good AUR helper, such as paru (https://github.com/morganamilo/paru), will by default automatically present the PKGBUILD for the user to evaluate before proceeding with the installation.
I think the more convincing theory for instrument-specific perfect pitch is that one learns to recognize the timbres of the individual notes, not any minute variations in pitch.
> Don’t learn a non-C instrument
I would recommend against this because it severely limits your options for instruments to play.